osmosis

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• ŏz-mōˈ -sĭs
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɒzˈməʊ̯sɪs/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɒsˈməʊ̯sɪs/
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• General-American: /ɑzˈmoʊ̯sɪs/
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• General-American: /ɑsˈmoʊ̯sɪs/
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• rhymes with -əʊsɪs
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• rhymes with -oʊsɪs
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• CMU ARPABET: AO2 Z M OW1 S IH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From endosmose and exosmose, both coined by French physician Henri Dutrochet in 1826; from (respectively) Ancient Greek ἔνδον (éndon, “within”) and Ancient Greek ἔξω (éxō, “outer, external”), plus Ancient Greek ὠσμός (ōsmós, “push, impulsion”), from ὠθέω (ōthéō).

57 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: خَاصِّيَّة أُسْمُوزِيَّة (ḵāṣṣiyya ʔusmūziyya, ḵāṣṣiyya ʔusmōziyya) — movement of molecules across a membrane
• Arabic: تَنَاضُح (tanāḍuḥ) — movement of molecules across a membrane
• Aragonese: osmosi — movement of molecules across a membrane
• Asturian: ósmosis — movement of molecules across a membrane
• Belarusian: о́смас (ósmas) — movement of molecules across a membrane
• Bengali: অভিস্রবণ (obhisrobon) — movement of molecules across a membrane
• Bulgarian: осмоза (osmoza) — movement of molecules across a membrane
• Catalan: osmosi — movement of molecules across a membrane
• Chinese Mandarin: 渗透 (shèntòu) — movement of molecules across a membrane
• Czech: osmóza — movement of molecules across a membrane
• Danish: osmose — movement of molecules across a membrane
• Dutch: osmose — movement of molecules across a membrane
• Esperanto: osmozo — movement of molecules across a membrane
• Finnish: osmoosi — movement of molecules across a membrane
• French: osmose — movement of molecules across a membrane
• Galician: osmose — movement of molecules across a membrane
• German: Osmose — movement of molecules across a membrane
• Greek: ώσμωση (ósmosi) — movement of molecules across a membrane
• Gujarati: અભિસરણ (abhisaraṇ) — movement of molecules across a membrane
• Hindi: परासरण (parāsaraṇ) — movement of molecules across a membrane
• Hungarian: ozmózis — movement of molecules across a membrane
• Icelandic: himnuflæði — movement of molecules across a membrane
• Indonesian: osmosis — movement of molecules across a membrane
• Irish: osmóis — movement of molecules across a membrane
• Italian: osmosi — movement of molecules across a membrane
• Japanese: 浸透 (shintō) — movement of molecules across a membrane
• Khmer: អូស្មូស (ʼousmouh) — movement of molecules across a membrane
• Korean: 삼투 (samtu) — movement of molecules across a membrane
• Malayalam: വൃതിവ്യാപനം (vr̥tivyāpanaṁ) — movement of molecules across a membrane
• Māori: rerewai — movement of molecules across a membrane
• Persian: اسمز (osmoz) — movement of molecules across a membrane
• Polish: osmoza — movement of molecules across a membrane
• Portuguese: osmose — movement of molecules across a membrane
• Russian: о́смос (ósmos) — movement of molecules across a membrane
• Shona: musenerera — movement of molecules across a membrane
• Spanish: ósmosis — movement of molecules across a membrane
• Swedish: osmos — movement of molecules across a membrane
• Tagalog: pananagos — movement of molecules across a membrane
• Tamil: சவ்வூடு பரவல் (cavvūṭu paraval) — movement of molecules across a membrane
• Tamil: பிரசாரணம் (piracāraṇam) — movement of molecules across a membrane
• Telugu: ద్రవాభిసరణం (dravābhisaraṇaṁ) — movement of molecules across a membrane
• Thai: การออสโมสิส — movement of molecules across a membrane
• Ukrainian: о́смос (ósmos) — movement of molecules across a membrane
• Vietnamese: sự thẩm thấu — movement of molecules across a membrane
• Chinese Mandarin: 耳濡目染 (ěrrúmùrǎn) — picking up knowledge accidentally
• Finnish: through osmosis — picking up knowledge accidentally
• Finnish: samalla — picking up knowledge accidentally
• German: but see Nachempfindung — picking up knowledge accidentally
• German: Nachvollziehung — picking up knowledge accidentally
• German: Nachvollzug — picking up knowledge accidentally
• German: Gefühlsansteckung — picking up knowledge accidentally
• German: Hineindenkung — picking up knowledge accidentally
• German: Gedankenansteckung — picking up knowledge accidentally
• German: Gedankenübernahme — picking up knowledge accidentally
• German: Ansichtenübernahme — picking up knowledge accidentally
• Polish: osmoza — picking up knowledge accidentally
• Portuguese: osmose — picking up knowledge accidentally